Darkens bright pages for easier night time reading. Unofficial improvement of 'Nicer Inverter'.

Latest Version

Version
6.0.0
Update
June 29, 2016
Size
1.24MiB
Developer
rileyjshaw.com
Category
Users
4,000+
Rating
3.91667 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Dark Theme Everywhere Extension

**New in Version 6**
Manually toggling a site's theme now adds or removes it from your exceptions list, so you don't need to re-click whenever you refresh!

**New in Version 5**
Subtly darkens photos and media embeds (you can turn this off from the Options page).

**New in Version 4**
Add a list of exceptions from the default theme (eg. \"facebook.com\").

I was tempted to call this \"Nicest Inverter\", but it doesn't actually invert anything. It gives you a dark page, no matter what!

Improvements from Nicer Inverter:
● Dark-ifies pages aggressively, so you're much less likely to come across pages with bright patches.
● Dark-ifies pages *by default*, so you don't need to click the extension's button on every page load.
● Allows you to toggle dark styles on and off without reloading the page.
● Optionally darkens photos and media embeds.

There are a lot of inverters out there, and many of them are great. I'm using Dark Reader[1] right now, and honestly, it's better than this for most use cases. BUT! Some pages on the internet are dark by default. When you invert a dark page, it becomes light. AGH MY EYES!

This extension will *always* give you a dark background.

You can change the default theme from \"Dark\" to \"Light\" by going to Tools -> Extensions and clicking the \"Options\" link under Dark Theme Everywhere. You can toggle the theme with a hotkey by going to Tools -> Extensions and clicking the \"Keyboard shortcuts\" link at the bottom.

Now that your browser is nice and dark-themed, you might notice an annoying white flash between pages. It's a known bug that's being tracked in Issue 1373[2] and Issue 126341[3]. I wrote another extension to reduce the flicker[4], but the problem will exist to some degree until it's fixed in Chromium.

Enjoy! Licensed under MIT.

Links:
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh
[2]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1373
[3]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126341
[4]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reduce-background-flicker/hdnedegfdlmgbabbgmnjnmmijfjeaiib
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx","name": "Dark Theme Everywhere","short_name": "Dark Theme","description": "Darkens bright pages for easier night time reading. Unofficial improvement of 'Nicer Inverter'.","background": {"scripts": [ "background.js" ]},"browser_action": {"default_icon": "icon38.png","default_title": "Toggle dark theme"},"icons": {"128": "icon128.png","48": "icon48.png","16": "icon16.png"},"manifest_version": 2,"applications": {"gecko": {"id": "[email protected]"}},"content_scripts": [{"matches": [""],"match_about_blank": true,"js": ["client.js"],"css": ["main.css"],"run_at": "document_start","all_frames": true}],"options_page": "options.html","web_accessible_resources": ["icon38.png","icon38-light.png"],"version": "6.0.0"}
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User reviews

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Jonathan Angles (ID: 000000caf76ef2b7) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 02/29/2024 It use to work a lot better, recently every time refresh a site or open chrome back up have to redo the dark them or undo it on sites don't want it used for. Have just deleted it and used Google's built in dark mode as this no longer works as it should.

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Vin Vin (ID: 00000063c16bb402) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 08/28/2023 ironically it doesn't works on chrome store.... and it dark all the facebook image.... to black!!!!

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Paul Bruni (ID: 0000001f1e7f03b2) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/29/2023 Ok folks, THIS is the extension you have been looking for. Great rendering of webpages, easy to toggle on or off. Option to darken or not embedded images or video. Great, great extension.

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hello World (ID: 0000002a38fcc060) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 12/12/2022 really useful app protects me from eyestrain :D thank you

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Arne Gebert (ID: 00000004dc3a7505) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/21/2022 Works very well for me on-demand. I have it set so its off by default and I can activate it on websites at night.